Hi all,
Our project is a commercial tower mainly with offices and few retail shops. The total area is 272,500 sq. ft. and we have provided waste collection area of 620 sq. ft. in the basement. Separate bins with separate colour bags (for paper, glass, ,metals, plastics, cardboard) will be provided in all levels for each tenant and building users. Then all the waste will be sent to basement floor via a garbage chute. There will be also a compactor in the waste room in the basement floor to compact waste in case it is in large volume. Every waste type/colour will be collected separately so that the hauler truck comes and takes the waste on a daily basis after work hours. My question is we have determined all the steps required in the pre-requisite, we have the plans, recycling area and frequency of pick ups. Now I want to know if this is sufficient to achieve the prerequisite or do we need some estimate of the volume of waste to be generated? We had contacted one municipality representative and described the building condition to them and they told us for a building of our type the waste bins and collection area size are enough. Also we have the compactor in place. Please guide me to determine if we are complying with all the requirements of the prerequisite or there is something missing?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11478 thumbs up
November 30, 2015 - 6:35 pm
Saud, it sounds to me like you have gone through the correct steps and should comply with the prerequisite. There have been LEED reviews where some justification of waste volume is needed, so it's great that you've been through the process you describe, and I would recommend describing it briefly in your narrative for LEED documentation.Definitely submit this prereq for design phase review so you have a chance to fix any problems that come back to you in review.
Saud Abdul Rasheed
Sustainability/Energy Engineer, CEM, PMP, LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP O+M, Estidama PQP23 thumbs up
November 30, 2015 - 10:49 pm
Hi Tristan and thanks for your reply. I have noticed before few days that in our Design Preliminary Review we had submitted this credit and on leedonline I presumed it was ok because on the last column I can see it is "REQUIRED" as well as "ANTICIPATED". We did not receive any comments on it during the design preliminary review. That's why we did not submit it in Design Final Review. But now I see it is still open for review? I just clicked on it and it has been marked as ready for review. I am confused whether did we achieve it or not. Does this mean we have to submit it again and that it is still not anticipated? What should we do about it now?
Megan White
Chief Sustainability OfficerIntegral Group
12 thumbs up
December 30, 2015 - 2:31 pm
Hi Saud,
I believe I know what happened here. GBCI will mark design credits as "Anticipated" after the preliminary review when they have nearly approved them. They will not mark them "Achieved" until final design review. What you should have done is submitted the Anticipated prerequisite in the Final Design review so that it could be marked as "Achieved." Because this step was not taken, it has bounced back to open.
I would recommend that you reach out to your GBCI Review team by submitting a question/inquiry through the general form at http://www.gbci.org/contact. And then during the Construction Review, just resubmit everything as you original did during the design preliminary review.
Saud Abdul Rasheed
Sustainability/Energy Engineer, CEM, PMP, LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP O+M, Estidama PQP23 thumbs up
December 30, 2015 - 10:45 pm
Hi Megan,
Thank you very much for the clarification.